Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
USS Seer (AM-112)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 28 November 1941 |
| Launched: | 23 May 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 21 October 1942 |
| Battle Stars: | 6 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 March 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 March 1963 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Norway, 15 December 1962 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class: | Auk class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 890 tons |
| Length: | 221'2" |
| Beam: | 32' |
| Draft: | 11' |
| Speed: | 18 k |
| Complement: | 105 |
| Armament: | 1 3", 2 40mm., 6 20mm., 2 dct., 4 dcp., 1 dcp. (hh. |
The USS Seer was one of 95 minesweeper, Auk class allied warships that existed during the period of world war II. It was one of 73 that served for the US Navy. It had a pennant AM-112.
Contents |
The ship was built by American Shipbuilding Co., located in Lorain, Ohio, U.S.A. From the time that it was laid down, on 28 November 1941, to the time that it was removed from the Naval Register, in March of 1963, the ship would have an epic career that involved much recommissioning and reclassification:
The Seer was first decommissioned in 1947, on April 26, at Orange, Texas. It was then laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, before being recommissioned in late 1950. Five years later, it was reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper, (Steel-hulled) MSF-112. However, only one month later, on 11 March 1955, it was again decommissioned. However, this was not the end of its career, and on 31 October 1958, Seer was reclassified again, this time as a Coastal Minesweeper MMC-5.
Four years later, in 1962, it was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy, where it received a new title of Uller (N 50). Finally, on the 1st of March, 1963, the ship was struck from the Naval Register.
|
|
|---|
|
Auk | Broadbill | Chickadee | Nuthatch | Pheasant | Sheldrake | Skylark | Starling | Swallow | Heed | Herald | Motive | Oracle | Pilot | Pioneer | Portent | Prevail | Pursuit | Requisite | Revenge | Sage | Seer | Sentinel | Staff | Skill | Speed | Strive | Steady | Sustain | Sway | Swerve | Swift | Symbol | Threat | Tide | Token | Tumult | Velocity | Vital | Usage | Zeal | Champion | Chief | Competent | Defense | Devasator | Gladiator | Impeccable | Spear | Triumph | Vigilance | Ardent | Dextrous | Minivet | Murrelet | Peregrine | Pigeon | Pochard | Ptarmigan | Quail | Redstart | Roselle | Ruddy | Scoter | Shoveler | Surfbird | Sprig | Tanager | Tercel | Toucan | Towhee | Waxwing | Wheatear |
| List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy |